Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters called for citizens to protest against Trump because 'he loves putin'

During a live TV interview, California Democrat Maxine Waters called on American citizens to hold nationwide protests against President Donald Trump, claiming that he's using "fake emergency powers," before declaring that "he loves Putin."

"All hands on deck to refuse this president these fake emergency powers that he would like to have.

"And so I'm urging everybody get together —rally in every community across this country all this weekend, send a message to Washington, D.C., 'No, Mr. President, we're not going allow you to do this.'"

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Waters was speaking in response to Trump's Friday declaration of a national emergency along the US Southern Border, in a move to secure more money for his long-promised wall.

Small protests took place in New York but Maxine Waters' nationwide protests have yet to materialize

Court battles are anticipated over the emergency declaration, which Trump predicted his administration would successfully defend before the Supreme Court.

The American Civil Liberties Union announced its intention to sue less than an hour after the White House released the text of Trump's declaration.

Nonprofit watchdog group Public Citizen filed suit later, urging the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to "bar Trump and the U.S. Department of Defense from using the declaration and funds appropriated for other purposes to build a border wall."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and several Democratic state attorneys general already have said they might go to court.